Site Speed Success Formula = good website latency + fast DNS lookup + high page load speed.
Site Speed Laboratory offers analysis of DNS Lookup speed & latency tests (ping) & Page Load speed for every website. Our analysis is based on data for May 26 2011. Since the first of July 2010 we carried out 22 tests from locations
for the main page of this website, the last of which were made about 3645 hours ago
SiteSpeedLab Overall Website Rating for this website
Based on our speed test results table and considering features of the current webserver location
(United states, Issaquah), we concluded overall
This website speed rank is 41.
That means 41% of the sites from the
Issaquah are slower for visitors than this website.
It is important to understand that you can't evaluate website speed without considering
website audience location. You should evaluate the speed of the site considering location of your
primary audience (visitors), and not just from abstract tests from various points of the planet. There
is a chance that your website is quite slow for visitors from German but pretty quick for Australian
users at the same time. Based on a primary audience location data Site Speed Laboratory maintains objective
rating. Test servers
located in the Usa and United Kingdom are more useful and important to Questionpro.com
because the shares of each country are 45.60 and 5.50 percent respectively.
You should not overestimate the importance of the website speed factor. Google has more than 200 ranking factors and website speed is just one of them.
Latency affects on the rate of exchange of network packets between the client (user's computer)
and the webserver. The lower latency to webserver means the faster start
of the processing of all requests to the webserver, and after all the faster page loading.
According to our data the average latency to the web server is 108 ms (see details). Test was conducted from 5 different locations. Average latency rating of the website is good (59% websites are
slower). For detailed latency stats from different locations, as well as time slices for a month,
3 months and 6 months and more visit Ping Test Graph.
We also recommend to take a look at latency rating at the United states, Issaquah location. This will give you an
idea about average latency values in the region. And the answer to the question of how good this result for the this website.
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Numbered vertical lines indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Numbered vertical lines indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Numbered vertical lines indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Numbered vertical lines indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
How to read the graph's data
This graph represents a detailed statistics of website latency. Periodical measurements give a
complete picture of website availability from the different areas of the planet. Particular
attention is given to the expansion of our testing servers around the world, in order to test
the site availability and latency in those locations where most of your visitors are.
Of course, the faster access to the site means users get content faster. It means less
bounce (bounce rate) and faster ads delivering (and therefore better performance CTR, eCPM).
This is even more important given the fact that we've detected Google Adsense ad network code
on this site. Ultimately, the best availability of the site gives you an edge over your
competitors. More information can be read on our page about the importance of the latency speed
for the website speed up.
Compare Latency Statistic
Dynamic of the Latency Changes for the website from various locations.
Location
Last check
7 day change
1 month change
3 month change
6 month change
Usa
45.60% of traffic
NY, New York
54 ms
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11% 60/54 ms
Florida, Tampa
80 ms
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4% 83/80 ms
Germany
2.80% of traffic
Frankfurt
163 ms
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Canada
2.70% of traffic
Montreal
93 ms
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5% 80/76 ms
United Kingdom
5.50% of traffic
Gloucester
151 ms
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2% 157/161 ms
Fragment of Issaquah latency speed rating table for this website
The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters
Why the low latency is important with this site as an example
To display this website browser needs to download 87 objects.
Though modern browsers use parallel connection now, we'll simplify the
conditions and calculate the time spent by the browser for these sites in a
single-threaded mode. Time required to establish HTTP connection only:
3 * website latency * website objects
+ preparation of the webserver response. Number 3 in the formula is a three
phase of a TCP connection:
sending a SYN request from the client to the server, sending ASK + SYN from the
server to the client and the ASK sending from the client to the server. Though we
can not calculate the time for a webserver response, the total time for sending
and receiving requests for each of the object will be:
3 * 108 ms * 87 objects = 0 sec
Of course, modern browsers use several simultaneous connections to download content from a domain
(from 2 to 8 at the time of writing this document). And in some browsers the number of connections
can be set manually (Opera).
But, if you impose these data on the first site
Collegetennisonline.com
from the latency table for the city Issaquah, it turns out that the
difference in time only for the sending and receiving requests to the web server
could be: 2.09 sec.
Sure, making such calculations must always take into account the audience site, and
always make an accent on the fact that the server should always be so geographically
closer to the primary audience as it possible. Also we recommend to pay attention to
an article about importance of the latency on our site.
DNS Lookup Speed
Browser should lookup domain name and get IP address of the server (72.5.52.194) before downloading the page.
We test DNS resolve for this domain from 5 locations. That's how we've got the
average time of receiving IP: 0.12s (which is better than 65% of all sites).
For more detailed stats look at DNS tests graph and DNS resolve page for United states, Issaquah location
(Average value on the widget is an average DNS resolve time for websites hosted at the same location).
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
Usa, NY, New York
Usa, Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
Graph Legend
Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
Data Loss
Compare DNS Speed
The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.
Location
Last check
7 day change
1 month change
3 month change
6 month change
Usa
45.60% of traffic
NY, New York
62 ms
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13% 122/108 ms
Florida, Tampa
238 ms
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4% 166/160 ms
Germany
2.80% of traffic
Frankfurt
123 ms
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17% 208/178 ms
Canada
2.70% of traffic
Montreal
12 ms
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13% 27/31 ms
United Kingdom
5.50% of traffic
Gloucester
150 ms
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10% 156/142 ms
Fragment of Issaquah DNS Speed rating table for this website
The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters
Downloading page itself is the final stage of the testing. Actually, this is the last stage,
after which page is displayed completely for user. The download speed depends on many factors.
Main factors are the following: the width of the bandwidth up to the domain, the number of
simultaneous download threads, speed of the server, a distance between user and domain web server.
Recent measurements have shown the speed of page download for this domain is 82.363Kb/s
(which is better than 41% of all sites in this region).
For more detailed stats check out report for Issaquah hosted websites.
Page Speed
Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with
DNS lookup speed and website latency).
Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css),
optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads
to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.
While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6.
Test results of the page loading listed in this table:
Pagespeed Flash Table
Ways to improve website performance
Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we
analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how
to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external
factors.
Reduse DNS Resolve
Browsers must resolve site's hosts to display all of the elements of the
Questionpro.com's page. Every domain name resolve requires a time, which
precedes the load from a specific domain. You can speed up page
loading by reducing the number of hosts, from which elements of the
page are loaded.
To display a page, a browser needs to load a lot of small images. Try to
combine images into one and display them via CSS. This technology is
called 'CSS Sprites'. It helps you reduce the number of requests to
the web server, which in turn also requires time and bandwidth.
For more details about this technology read our manual.
This is a good practice to give the user content in compressed form.
We've detected 279.74 Kb of content that could be compressed.
By compressing content you can achieve the size of ~ 69.93 Kb
(saving 209.8 Kb). This would accelerate the page loading speed and would positively
impact the bandwidth savings in Internap Network Services.
http://questionpro.com/. File size 24.22 Kb and you can save up to 18.16 Kb
http://questionpro.com/javascript/global.js?version=14. File size 139.45 Kb and you can save up to 104.59 Kb
http://questionpro.com/javascript/urchin.js. File size 20.84 Kb and you can save up to 15.63 Kb
http://questionpro.com/stylesheets/common.css?version=6. File size 44.48 Kb and you can save up to 33.36 Kb
http://questionpro.com/stylesheets/sitestyle.css?version=6. File size 12.82 Kb and you can save up to 9.62 Kb
http://questionpro.com/javascript/__utm.js. File size 0.04 Kb and you can save up to 0.03 Kb
http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js. File size 29.95 Kb and you can save up to 22.46 Kb
http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.css. File size 3.43 Kb and you can save up to 2.57 Kb
https://seal.godaddy.com/getSeal?sealID=64472759101ecabdf31011ebd7f322.... File size 4.5 Kb and you can save up to 3.38 Kb
Keep Components under 25K
Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets
have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger
than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc.
are less than 25K.
http://questionpro.com/javascript/global.js?version=14 Content-Encoding: application/x-javascript. File size 139.45 Kb.
http://questionpro.com/stylesheets/common.css?version=6 Content-Encoding: text/css. File size 44.48 Kb.
http://questionpro.com/images/homepage-woman-blend.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 36.3 Kb.
http://questionpro.com/images/inc500.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 44.36 Kb.
http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js Content-Encoding: application/x-javascript. File size 29.95 Kb.
http://questionpro.com/images/masthead-1028.gif Content-Encoding: image/gif. File size 39.63 Kb.
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=questionpro&include_rts=true&c... Content-Encoding: application/json; charset=utf-8. File size 31.29 Kb.
Alternate text for the images.
As you may already know, search engine that indexes your pages, do not
have eyes. And all content you are trying to display on your site is
just HTML & CSS code, images, Flash, etc for the robots. It is It's
extremely important to describe each of the objects more datailed using
ALT, TITLE and other tags.
Our robot has determined that the questionpro.com page has
13
images, which has no tag ALT. Tag ALT is a text field, that specifies an
alternate text for an image. But not only. Search engines consider this
tag as a supplemental result for assessing the content of your page
entirely. Do not ignore it!
P.S. We used keyword for this image that seemed to us most important for your page.
But you can go ahead and give to each of 13 images an ALT text. This problem requires
responsible approach. No need to put the same text at alt tag of the all images.
Imagine that the pictures do not show and try to make sure that users understand what
is shown on the picture based on the alt tag
Specify image dimensions
The browser needs to know the actual dimensions of image (width and height) to quickly render webpage.
We have detected that the 22 images has no width and height.
If you do not specify the width and/or height, then in order to
correctly display the image browser needs to download it and only then
put on the screen. Otherwise, there is a chance browser will display
elements under the picture inappropriately as well as the possible
presence of "jumping" effect of the page content (until the page load
is finished).
We provide below example of how to define the image /images/iconshock/close_16.gif dimensions:
We suggest you along with important and well-known tags like Title &
H1 use also H2, H3, H4, H5, STRONG tags. Each page can (and should)
highlight not only the main topic, but also complement the semantic
core of the page and the whole site with the secondary keywords. For
example, if the main topic of the page is dedicated servers, there is
a probability that page has a blog about managed dedicated servers.
If so try to highlight the title of the block by using tag <H2>, and
an information that you provide this service in the United Kingdom
highlight with H3 tag and so on. Thus try to highlight every important
fragment of the information on your page with tags like STRONG, H2,
H3, etc.
We did not find H2 tags, H3 tags, H4 tags, H5 tags, STRONG tags on the page
Use the TITLE for A tag
As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site
like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain
page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in
the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by
the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing.
For example, you have the link on your website:
Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "web survey software" that describes the link /.
Number of links on the page
Try to avoid a large number of links on the page. Our robot
have found 113 links on this page. Google recommends
to keep the number of links fewer than 100.
More information about this topic you can find in
Google Webmaster Guidelines
and in the post "How many links per page?"
by Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team)